# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Core Connectivity

Zoox is building the world's most advanced self-driving hardware and software solution. Inside the vehicle, dozens of processes across several compute hosts exchange sensor data, perception output, planner decisions, and control commands many times a second. Every millisecond spent moving that data is a millisecond the vehicle doesn't have to react, so the transport has to be fast and predictable, and keep working when a process restarts or a host comes up late. The Core Connectivity team owns how that data moves, and how fast: shared-memory IPC between processes, transport between hosts, serialization, the RPC and messaging patterns application teams build on, and time synchronization across hosts. Nearly every software team at Zoox builds on this layer, so you'll work closely with the teams that use it, and your work shows up directly in how the vehicle drives. In this role, you will: Design and build low-latency inter-process and inter-host transport in C++: zero-copy data paths, shared-memory buffers, and lock-free queues. Measure and drive down end-to-end latency and jitter as message volume grows. Make the transport hold up when processes crash or restart, hosts start out of

- **Id**: 3998883
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zoox-seniorstaff-software-engineer-core-connectivity>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Foster City, United States, Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T21:58:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T02:39:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2966
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility, Automotive Manufacturing, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 3626
- **Name**: Zoox
- **Domain**: zoox.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zoox>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 72
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.925
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 255000
- **Max**: 320000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 320000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T02:39:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 373 · green card filings: 120; Filings 12m: 373

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T04:28:13Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 320000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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